Miles Baker had a career weekend at the Buckeye, Arizona, Royal Crown Futurity this February, with his horses bringing home more than $83,000 in three days. Baker won the 4-&-Under Heeling on Dasco Cattle’s Lil Bit O Cash and the 6-&-Under Heading on

From Brazile and Patrick Smith’s Legend DVD, this video takes you through Trevor Brazile’s full philosophy on tuning a head horse in a variety of scenarios, with a strong emphasis on the most overlooked part of a run: the face. Brazile explains his f

Cody Johnson and Ricky Oliver won the Ariat World Series of Team Roping's #7 Qualifier in Hamilton, Texas, Feb. 18, at the Circle T Arena, produced by Mathews Land and Cattle. The Madisonville, Texas, and Huntsville, Texas, team pocketed $13,060 for

Hunter Koch heeled the short round steer in 4.5 seconds behind Cody Snow at Tucson, Arizona's La Fiesta de Los Vaqueros Rodeo to win the final round and the average with a 10.3 on two. They won $512 each for their seventh-place split in the first rou

Mike Kunzler piloted the Woody Be Tuff son Celtic Tuff to his third major Intermediate Heading title, while Logan Anseth jump-rode Royal Crown stallion Cashing N My Diamond by Time For The Diamond to the Intermediate heeling win this year at the Roya

Dear Roper, This is another of our Horse Market special issues, with content sprinkled throughout that highlights the booming rope horse industry. And this might be one of my favorite mixes of stories on the market yet. In Kendra Santos’ Horsepower d

Q: Where is Bolivar, Tennessee, and what’s it like where you grew up? A: Bolivar’s in West Tennessee, an hour east of Memphis and about 30 miles north of Mississippi. Tennessee’s a beautiful state, and Bolivar has a lot of green grass and trees. My f

Freeze Frame with Derrick Begay Derrick Begay Breaks Down Finals Run at San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo SITUATION: Short-round steer, 2024 San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo TIME: 3.8 seconds PAYOUT: $12,500 a man in the round, $22,250 a man total On thos

Kaleb Driggers announced Feb. 13 the retirement of Remis Gays On Ofadoc, the bay gelding he calls Cuervo that carried him to his first gold buckle in 2021 and second in 2022. Cuervo, the 2007 gelding by Reminic N Dunit out of FLS Oaks Classy Lady by

At the age of 16, Judy Wagner and her seven younger siblings lost their father in a December tractor accident on their Western Montana ranch. “That Christmas, I learned firsthand that the cows don’t know it’s Christmas,” Wagner remembered. “So, my ma

Why and how Joseph Harrison is going back to his roots to frame up his heel horses throughout the run. I had gotten away from putting emphasis on the frame in my horses. I was doing good enough and letting them be what they were more. Some wanted to

The Ariat World Series of Team Roping Title Fights XIV produced by Yost Events once again traveled to Rancho Rio in the heart of the Team Roping Capital of the World—Wickenburg, Arizona. The Feb. 14-17, 2024, event paid out a staggering $1.51 million

Derrick Begay and Colter Todd clawed their way to the 2024 San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo victory Saturday, Feb. 24, after raking in $22,500 a man. Begay’s been dreaming about winning San Antonio since the early winter of 2009 after a visit to Sherry

Jake Cooper is a three-time Wrangler National Finals Rodeo header who knows all about the astronomical advantage of high-end horsepower. Cooper—who headed for his twin brother, Jim Ross, at Rodeo’s Super Bowl in 2007, Russell Cardoza at NFR 2015 and

The High Point Roper of the Rancho Rio Cowboy Cadillac Showdown was header Harold McCain of Vilonia, Arkansas, placing second with Rusty Silva, Lapoint, Utah, and seventh with Leon Hull, Seymour, Missouri, winning the 1967 Caddy by a landslide. "I ju

Colter Todd was hot off his first Wrangler National Finals Rodeo qualification when he rolled into Salado, Texas for the Wildfire Open to the World—his third time appearing at the $75,000-added event. Coming from Willcox, Arizona, Todd had never had

When you head to Cowtown for the USTRC’s Cinch National Finals of Team Roping April 21 to April 28, you’re going to be busy at the Will Rogers Memorial Center. But the schedule allows for great dinners out in Fort Worth and nights on the town, plus e

The Title Fights in Wickenburg, Arizona, paid out some $1.5 million Feb. 14 to Feb. 17 this year, marking the second-largest Ariat WSTR qualifier of the year. Arizonans Jay Varela and Emilio Garcia banked $37,440 for their time of 37.04 seconds on fo

A stone’s throw away from the Will Rogers Memorial Center, home to the USTRC’s 2024 Cinch National Finals of Team Roping, is the National Cowgirl Museum & Hall of Fame, home to some of the handiest ropers in the history of the sport. Since before Okl

You become one of the best heelers in the world because team roping has consumed you all your life. It’s your purpose. It’s just what you do. So, when you’re a 9 heeler and find yourself, at 37, near death with an abdomen full of fluid and half a lun

We’re in central Wyoming. Our home place is kind of high desert country. … To accomplish what we need to accomplish, it’s very important to have horses. I want a horse that I enjoy riding. A lot of places raise a lot of horses, but the owners never e

The Ariat World Series of Team Roping Finale will host the first-ever Riata Buckle Horse Sale Dec. 8, 2024, at the South Point Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The event will bring together the largest concentration of team ropers in the world, offering

Team roping futurities have gone nuts, which has us spotlighting breeding with a focus on stallions. But the new all-time leading dam of futurity moneywinners by more than one sire? She’s a bad “Betty!” The mama of the winningest futurity horses by m